Medium to Large Scale Python Deployments

[Ian Parker]

In article <7hUN8.529345$%u2.28370 at atlpnn01.usenetserver.com>, Steve 
Holden <sholden at holdenweb.com> writes
>"Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message
>news:3D0140BF.A239E39E at engcorp.com...
>> Bengt Richter wrote:
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>> > Is the "comments" number a count of _pure_ comment lines,
>> > # (like this one) ?
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>> I believe so.  I haven't examined the pycount code yet.
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>> > I think it would be interesting to analyze comments further,
>> > to see what the relative comment byte count is overall,
>> > and for lines with both code and comments,
>> > """like this line:""" # (this has code and comment).
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>> I consider it a mild stylistic no-no to use line-ending
>> comments, personally.  I believe it's almost always better
>> to put a block-comment of one or more lines above a block
>> of code with related purpose.  A good comment there tends to
>> be more maintainable, and useful, than lots of little comments
>> on each line.
>>
>I wouldn't necessarily disagree, but I used (when programming (gulp) Basic
>Plus) to make the line-end comments into a free-form narrative that rough;y
>parallelled the code.
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I did the same on assemblers (double gulp) and possibly FORTRAN. I think 
it's an effective technique on languages where the statements are 
relatively short compared to the window width.

Regards

Ian
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Ian Parker